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SpaceCollective; An Awesome Window Into Mind,Reflection and Exploration

"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free — to be... more

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Sunrise til Sunset

Experimental Video Makes me wonder.... what happens during sunrise til sunset

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Parfum Girl

Luca Mainini, 2009 - collage su carta A4 http://poislogo.blogspot.com

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Twin Towers Make Up Attack !

Luca Mainini, 2009 - collage su carta A4 http://poislogo.blogspot.com

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Omicidio visivo di una diva in bianco e nero con smalto rosso sangue

Luca Mainini, 2009 - collage su carta A4 http://poislogo.blogspot.com

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Pop Hair Enigma n°2

Luca Mainini, 2009 http://poislogo.blogspot.com

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Chiptunes geeks hack video-game systems into music machines

A chiptune, or chip music, is music written in sound formats where all the sounds are... more

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ERRARE - di remo spada

ERRARE (GIROVAGARE SENZA META) E' UMANO experimental video from Remo Spada

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12 Masters Of Visual Storytelling

This is a very interesting list, featuring some amazing pictures that tell great... more

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New NEA Director in it to Win It

"Now that the Broadway producer Rocco Landesman is officially chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts — he was confirmed on Friday — his straight-talking style, Missouri roots and affinity for baseball and country music are expected to give him a leg up with many legislators.

But in his first sit-down interview since his nomination by President Obama, Mr. Landesman’s comments suggested that he may nevertheless raise hackles on Capitol Hill after he is sworn in in the next few days. Speaking recently in his office above the St. James Theater on West 44th Street, where Tony Awards abut baseball trophies — testament to his prowess as a producer and as a pitcher in the Broadway Show League — Mr. Landesman, 62, made clear that he has little patience for the disdain with which some politicians still seem to view the endowment, more than a decade after the culture wars that nearly destroyed it.

He was particularly angered, he said, by parts of the debate over whether to include $50 million for the agency in the federal stimulus bill, citing the comment by Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in February, that arts money did not belong in the bill. That kind of thinking suggests that “artists don’t have kids to send to college,” Mr. Landesman said, “or food to put on the table, or medical bills to pay.”

In American politics generally, he added: “The arts are a little bit of a target. The subtext is that it is elitist, left wing, maybe even a little gay.”

On the subject of the endowment’s budget, too, Mr. Landesman did not hold back. Though he would not put a dollar figure on his own fiscal goals, he called the current appropriation of $155 million “pathetic” and “embarrassing.” And he seemed to imply dissatisfaction with increases proposed by Congress and by the president, which both fall short of the agency’s 1992 budget of $176 million.

“We’re going to be looking for funding increases that are more than incremental,” he said.

As for grants to individual artists — which were eliminated in 1996 after years of complaints from conservative legislators about the financing of controversial art — Mr. Landesman said he would reinstate them “tomorrow” if it were up to him. (It’s up to Congress.)

He was less clear about the details of this ambitious agenda, though he talked about starting a program that he called “Our Town,” which would provide home equity loans and rent subsidies for living and working spaces to encourage artists to move to downtown areas.""Now that the Broadway producer Rocco Landesman is officially chairman of the National... more

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Return to Departure - Kirkland Arts Center

Sixteen artists explore the future as a theme and subject on canvas, using traditional... more

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3 Ways To Use Your Cell Phone as a Portfolio

Here are 3 ways to put that cell phone to work at networking events and in making... more

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The Arch Enemy of the Artist and Designer

The artist or designer has a special, powerful and unique ability. Like the classic... more

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Turning Trash Into Artistic Treasure

A pill bottle, a losing lottery ticket, a broken umbrella, a long-forgotten trophy: Mostly, we consider these items detritus awaiting garbage collection.

Artist Jean Shin collects them and finds artistic meaning and symbolism in these castoffs. Her creations go on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

Shin, a 38-year-old Korean-American from Bethesda, Md., creates art that encourages people to look more carefully. Her piece Everyday Monuments, for example, appears at first to simply be a mass of sports trophies.

But the little gold bowling figures are handling strollers, not bowling balls; the basketball players are holding hammers; the soccer player holds a typewriter and the cheerleader serves up a dish of food.

The champions, in this case, are those who do ordinary, essential work but "aren't getting trophies today," Shin says.

Shin specializes in transforming everyday objects into something else, though she can't always predict how her art will be interpreted. For her installation Untied, Shin knotted dozens of old neckties along the top of a chain-link fence in a run-down neighborhood in New Haven, Conn.

Shin expected people would add their own neckties to the display — instead, they saw the ties as freebies for the taking. She laughingly tells the story of introducing herself to one nicely dressed man who was headed to work with an armful of ties lifted from the installation.

"He was, of course, embarrassed — mortified," Shin recalls. "He was like, 'Oh! Oh, I'm so sorry, here, I can put it back!'"

Of course, when a tie or a trophy is sitting around in your closet or basement, there's nothing artistic about it.

"In Jean's hands, the process of making these objects new again, of giving them life [and] restored purpose, and making us look at them — or asking us to look at them — in a completely new way is very artful," says Joanna Marsh, who organized the show for the museum.

Shin says her work is informed by conceptualism, by the ideas as well as the visual impact.

"As artists, we're thinking about these ideas that are meaningful to us and [we] hope that other viewers can also translate the viewing experience into a thinking process," Shin says. "For me, my meaning is [not just] looking, but feeling and thinking."A pill bottle, a losing lottery ticket, a broken umbrella, a long-forgotten trophy:... more